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One hundred days after famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, humanitarian agencies have reached more than half of the four million people who urgently need help.
But after months of drought, agencies are now struggling to tackle a rise in cholera and other water-borne diseases due to seasonal...

Countries need to take more consistent national action against the perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, turning to international justice mechanisms only as a last option, policy-makers heard at the International Peace Institute last week.
In a meeting hosted by OCHA and...

The women began to arrive from early morning as soon as they were informed the mobile clinic was coming to the Health Centre of Caluco in the Salvadorean Department of Sonsonate.
Some women arrived accompanied by a friend, others arrived on their own. The majority of them were pregnant, who had taken...

In April this year, the Government of Pakistan said it was time for the residents of Jalozai camp to go home.
Jalozai is one of the largest camps for people displaced by conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in north western Pakistan. In late 2008, thousands of families were forced to flee from fighting...

Mariam Usman has just rebuilt her home on wooden stilts, and the memory of the floods that swallowed her village in June is still fresh.
“I always fear that the floods will sweep my children away,” says Ms Usman. A 36-year-old mother of six, she has good reason to be anxious. The small...